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Arcadia Farms Cafe
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Category: American (New)
1625 N Central AvePhoenix, AZ 85004
(602) 257-2191
Discounts
Discounts for Phoenix Art Museum Members, Phoenix Theatre Season Ticket Holders and Single Show Ticket Holders. Mention this add 10% Off!!
- Hours:
Wed. 10:00 a.m. - 8:00 p.m.
Thu-Sat. 10:00 a.m. - 3:00 p.m.
Sun. 11:00 a.m. - 3:00 p.m.
- Attire:
- Casual
- Accepts Credit Cards:
- Yes
- Parking:
- Private Lot
- Price Range:
-
$$
- Good for Groups:
- Yes
- Good for Kids:
- No
- Takes Reservations:
- Yes
- Delivery:
- Yes
- Take-out:
- Yes
- Waiter Service:
- Yes
- Wheelchair Accessible:
- Yes
- Outdoor Seating:
- Yes
- Alcohol:
- Full Bar
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13 reviews for Arcadia Farms Cafe
Really good food. I had the Strawberry Chicken Salad. It looked so fresh and delicious! I should have taken a picture. The poppy dressing was light and there wasn't too much of it either. I tried their apricot iced tea. It was okay, nothing special in my opinion.
The menu was really great and I was impressed with the wine selection. I am really excited to come back and try all the other tasty food!
Why did I dock them a star? A couple of reasons:
1. NO art on the walls! We are in the frickin Phoenix Art Museum people. This should be a place to constantly exhibit art. I've been in the store rooms, there is a ton of art that could be shown here. Even better, allow local artists to display.
2. It took 20 minutes to get our orders taken, 30 minutes to recieve our food and another 15 to get the bill. Although our server was polite, the entire experience took much too long. This is a place for a leisurely meal. keep that in mind.
A friend & I had a lovely lunch here. We split the Brie w/ Carmelized Apples & an Asian Chicken Salad. Everything was very fresh and flavorful. Service was superb.
The only thing I would complain about is the price $29 for a salad and starter..... come on! We only drank water....then there's the noise, sit outside if you can.
I got married at the PAM cafe this weekend (ceremony on the patio, reception inside the cafe) and it was great. There were some communication issues in the planning stages but the event itself went off without a hitch. The dinner was delicious, the cupcakes rocked, the staff was great!
YAY Arcadia Farms!
If you're thinking of having your wedding here and want to know more details about the event, feel free to message me. My brain is too fried at the moment to include it all in the review.
I am a fan.
The food is good. The wine list is good. The desserts are mouth-wateringly good.
If you are in the mood for culture and good food, then you should go to the museum and eat at this amazing cafe.
A little expensive, but if you've got it, then live a little and have a fancy lunch. Saturdays they offer tea in the afternoon, but you have to make a reservation. I plan on taking my daughter to high tea here soon. There are a lot of Grand Dames who lunch here.
It is a perfectly lovely spot for a break from art musing. The food is tasty but clearly pre-made and that is a little off setting. Overall it is a unique combination of high style cafeteria with a wine bar. You don't think leek and spinach tart prepared by a cafeteria. On the other hand, you do recognize your tart was run thru a broiler as a pre-made frozen variety before it arrives at your table. I would go so far as to say because it is Arcadia Farms you expect super fresh food and instead you get super fresh pre-prepared food. This is the 3 star quagmire...did I like it, yes, would I go again, only if I was really hungry and didn't know that there were a ton of eclectic restaurants whipping up great food blocks from here...but if I was really jonesing for a drink while art browsing - nothing would stop me from plunking down for a glass!
I visited the museum last month with some out of town guests and we stopped in to Arcadia Farms Cafe. It was pretty convenient since we got hungry mid trip, but I probably wouldn't eat here again unless I was presented with a similar situation.
They pre-make all of the food, so you cannot really pick and choose what you want. When I am paying $12 for a quesedilla, I like to be able to say NO MUSHROOMS. But I digress.
They did have a really, really tasty apricot iced tea. Normally I stick to plain iced tea, but I was feeling adventurous this day and I am glad I tried it.
There is also a really tasty hummus. I think it has cilantro in it because it has a little zing.
The server was pretty unfriendly, but she gave good service so I won't complain.
Overall the food was good, but not worth the expensive prices and inability to be special.
Everyone has a favorite lunch spot or two that they frequent regularly... well, maybe not everyone, but I do! Arcadia Farms - Scottsdale happens to be one of mine. Since I'd never been to the Arcadia Farms location at the Phoenix Art Museum, I thought I'd change it up a bit and suggested this location for a business lunch the other day...
I arrived early and the place was pretty empty, so it was no problem to get a table and do some work while I waited. The waitress was friendly (not super friendly but just fine) and brought me a mango iced tea- my favorite - just like the Arcadia Farms Scottsdale! I perused the menu and noticed some similarities on the menu, but a few different options too. My usual favorite salad (grilled vegetable with chicken) was not on the menu but there were a few items that were different and sounded good. I was up in the air between the california roll salad and the greek... I opted for the greek and added shrimp.
Side note - usually, at the other location, they bring fresh bread... we did not receive bread nor were we offered bread at this location.
Anyways, our food arrived pretty quickly - and my salad was good... not great, but good. It was served with a small portion of hummus and a couple pita triangles, but I wasn't too impressed with the flavor of the hummus. The salad had a few too many onions in it (but i guess that's my fault; I could've ordered it without onions).
All in all, I had a lovely lunch as I was in great company and my food was fine. I would go back but maybe order something different next visit. And if I had the choice, I'd go to one of the other locations (maybe City Bakery or the Heard Museum) over this one. But I will say, that if you're at the Phoenix Art Museum and in the mood for a light lunch or snack, this place is perfect.
The Arcadia Farms cafe at the Phoenix Art Museum (PAM) joins similar operations at the Heard Museum and the Arizona Science Center in a trio of on-site restaurants at cultural institutions in Central Phoenix. The cafe succeeds a previous restaurant at PAM run by long-time Phoenix restaurateur Eddie Matney, who is now cooking at his new restaurant Eddie's House.
While Matney makes his mark in Scottsdale, the museum restaurant continues without a local celebrity at the helm, emphasizing instead a typical Arcadia Farms approach and menu. The cafe has two entrances - one from inside the museum and one from the courtyard near the Phoenix Theater, which occupies the same complex as PAM. Both entries converge on a single host station, and museum admission is not required to dine at the restaurant.
Matching the broad, all-purpose focus of PAM, the Arcadia Farms operation at the museum doesn't specialize in any particular cuisine. The menu is a broad spectrum of crowd-pleasers sprinkled with just enough innovation to keep them interesting without crossing over into intimidating gastronomic territory. The starters alone feel like a miniature world tour. There's Middle Eastern in the form of hummus and pita chips, French in the form of brie and apples with mini-baguette toasts, and Thai in the form of chicken satay skewers. The one standout among the appetizers is a smoked salmon cheesecake. This dish blurs the boundaries between tastes and cultures in a way that would make it at home in PAM's recently expanded contemporary galleries.
The entrees are also all over the map, but with generally good results. The grilled salmon is mild Atlantic salmon, but it benefits from fresh vegetables and herbs like tarragon. A vegetarian option is a tart of wild mushrooms, spinach, and goat cheese. Between the goat cheese and the pastry crust, the dish is meatless but still indulgent. There are also several sandwiches completing the menu.
While PAM is visually impressive, the restaurant space is not terribly distinctive. The look is a sort of generic beige reminiscent of a hotel restaurant. The view of the sculpture garden through the windows redeems the aesthetics a little, but the net effect is not as interesting as at the Arcadia Farms restaurants at the Heard or the Science Center. Nothing lacks in quality at the PAM version of Arcadia Farms, but the surprisingly sterile decor, combined with the broad menu, makes this restaurant seem less focused than its peers.
The refreshment options at PAM should become more interesting if a promised espresso and wine bar next to the gift shop eventually opens. Until then, the Arcadia Farms cafe is a perfectly nice break during a museum visit, although maybe not as close to being a destination in its own right as the other Arcadia Farms operations. The cafe is open every day except Monday from 10 AM until 5 PM. The kitchen closes at 3 PM, however, so the late afternoon options are limited to beverages, pastries, and the like. The cafe has high chairs and a kid's menu, making it a viable place to eat in conjunction with a visit to the recently renovated PhxArtsKids gallery.
So, for work, our event today was at the Phoenix Art Museum and we all met for lunch before heading to No Festival Required.
Our table was ready - set for a group of 20. Luckily, we only had a dozen people. The table wouldn't have been able to comfortably equip 20, but was great for 12. Just not enough space for the larger reservation we had made.
I had read the reviews first to see what kind of menu they had.
I opted for the brie and fruit appetizer, along with apricot iced tea. I'm not HUGE on apricots, but I ended up having my glass refilled twice. It wasn't too sweet and came with a slice of lemon. I could have drank a gallon, if not for the fact that I'd be sitting in the theater to see the short films! What a surprise to have it come - an ENTIRE wheel of brie with some baguette toasts, 2 strawberries and 5 grapes. Yes, that's all that came with an ENTIRE wheel of brie. I did ask for extra toasts and got that with no extra charge. The entree cost $11. I think that's pretty comparable to going to the market to buy an ENTIRE wheel of brie, fruit, etc. More fruit would have been nice, though. I now have a HALF of a wheel of brie in the fridge for later. :}
Service was super-friendly. Justin, our server, was great!
I'd love to come here again with my Mom on a Sunday and check out the rest of the museum.
Yesterday I had a lovely business lunch at Arcadia Farms Cafe at the Phoenix Art Museum. The environment suited our needs perfectly - we had a lovely table, large enough for paperwork and such, and our waitress was able to fill our glasses with mysterious ease.
I ordered the Spinach, Mushroom and Goat Cheese Tart and the Mango Iced-Tea.
I really liked the iced-tea - It was just naturally sweet enough to drink without sugar. The Tart was served with a salad of greens with tomatoes and cucumbers. The salad dressing was sweet and light.
The Tart itself was extremely flavorful and full of yummy goodness, but I SO wanted to run back to the kitchen and pop it into the microwave for 30 seconds. I didn't think it was supposed to be served cold, especially since there was melted cheese on top. I am guessing the tart is pre-made and refrigerated until ordered, and then they melt cheese on top. There's something about melted cheese on top of something cold that just doesn't appeal to me. I would actually love to go back, order the Tart again, and ask for it to be heated through ... I wonder if they would do that?
$7.04 - that's all we spent here. Two regular coffees and a giant cookie ($3 cookie - whoa). It was an early December Sunday - rainy, cloudy and cool. We had wandered the Phx Art Museum and now wanted to relax with a cup of hot java. Upon entry, we weren't sure if they were even open. They were for drinks only, considering the museum was to close in the next 45 minutes. We meandered toward the bar and waited for someone to spot us. Soon, we had two steaming hot cups of coffee. Getting fresh cream required a request. Fair enough, I guess.
We sat outside, somehow managed to find the most dry seats we could. The table still collected rain drops from a previous fall. It was a beautiful garden, especially considering the overcast skies. A family of three wandered by, the little daughter stopping to examine the lights along her pathway. She was a mini explorer, and she was adorable.
Arcadia Farms Cafe, inside the Phx Art Museum (in case you didn't pick up on that), says it's "the cafe of choice." I'm sure that's true, if you're at the museum, for it's the only cafe of choice. It's not a horrible option, either, if you want to pop in for a cup of coffee, a cookie treat and meandering conversation.
Did you know that Tuesday nights are free at the Museum? And there are always TONS of things going on on Tuesday nights? And that the Museum Cafe is open late on Tuesdays? This is one of my FAVORITE places to dine on Tuesday evenings, and, shockingly, it's almost always EMPTY. C'mon people you gotta check out this scene! It's fabulous especially in the summer when it's so hot out -- that 72degrees they must keep it inside (for the paintings) feels pretty darn good!
Have dined here occasionally over the years, and food has been consistently good. You can visit the Cafe separately from the museum, but it's a great stop when spending time at the exhibitions. Lunch is served till mid-afternoon, then desserts/coffee till closing (usually close when the museum does at 5pm; sometimes close early). The vegetable quesadilla is my personal favorite (can get chicken or shrimp added), with lemonade. Their coffee is very good and while usually no room for dessert, brought one home last visit and it was delicious. Atmosphere is both nice and casual; service prompt 99% of the time, and staff is pleasant. If not so far away, would visit more often.
